worth the effort

you may be living in Utah if…

So I went to pick Benjamin up from piano this afternoon (Sam is still sick on the couch) and his darling piano teacher came walking out with a surprise dinner for us. How kind was that?

The best part? It’s the most stereotypical Mormon comfort food dinner ever. A chicken casserole, complete with both cream of chicken soup and a Stove Top crust; jello (for those that don’t know, a generation of Mormons considers jello a salad); and two desserts (in case the kids didn’t like the first one?). Not a salad or a green vegetable in sight. And we will love and enjoy every bite. Awesome.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. --Albert Einstein